Alex Rogers
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Outlook: After Kavanaugh, Senate Turns to Nominations, Infrastructure
The push for a new federal data-privacy framework ramps up this week, while President Trump is expected to make a major ethanol announcement in Iowa on Tuesday. → Read More
Dems Prep a Plan if Rosenstein Is Fired
Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Trump will fire the deputy attorney general—but they don’t want their colleagues to immediately call for impeachment. → Read More
Why the Senate Couldn’t Come Together on Immigration
The chamber couldn’t figure out a bipartisan solution in 2013, and the divides have only gotten worse since then. → Read More
How Senate Women Turned the Tide Against Al Franken
After weeks of uncertainty about his fate, the Senate’s Democratic women forced the issue Wednesday. → Read More
McConnell Still Stands Tall on the Hill
He may be under fire from the Republican base, feuding with the president, and stalled on Obamacare, but the majority leader has the support of GOP senators. → Read More
Anatomy of a Republican Health Bill Failure
A largely closed process and a dramatic last-minute defection doomed the GOP’s latest Obamacare repeal effort. → Read More
Despite Win, Obamacare-Repeal Effort Faces Cloudy Future
Republicans succeeded in beginning debate, but it’s difficult to see anything other than a “skinny” measure passing. → Read More
Wednesday Q+A With Sen. Orrin Hatch
The Republican stalwart on Gorsuch, tax reform, and his not-quite-announced run for another term. → Read More
Trump, GOP Leaders Try to Seal the Deal on Health Bill
House Republicans released a series of tweaks to their Obamacare repeal legislation in hopes of wooing both moderate and conservative votes. → Read More
Which Side Will Trump Take in the Next Debt-Ceiling Fight?
Hill conservatives are unsure whether they’ll be battling alongside or against the White House. → Read More
How Trump’s D.C. Hotel Deal Could Fall Apart
If Trump decides to get out of his Old Post Office lease, here’s how—and why—it might happen → Read More
After Trump, GOP Foreign Policy Faces an Uncertain Future
Republicans have picked a nominee who breaks from party orthodoxy on most international issues. What happens after Election Day? → Read More
Lame-Duck Prospects Fading for Pacific Trade Pact
Opposition to TPP from both Trump and Clinton leaves only a very narrow window for passage this year. And even that appears to be closing. → Read More
Why Tim Kaine Has Never Lost
Hillary Clinton’s newly minted running mate has won every single race he’s run—from the city council to the Senate—with a combination of political skill, likability, and good timing. → Read More
What Bernie Sanders Won
He failed to clinch the Democratic nomination, but made it farther than anyone expected—and pushed Hillary Clinton to the left on key issues. → Read More
How Puerto Rico Bill Foes’ Hardball Tactics Backfired
Pressure from lobbyists representing hedge funds angered the lawmakers and aides who crafted the compromise package. → Read More
The Pot Industry’s Problem—Too Much Cash
Even though marijuana is legal in several states, the industry still can’t use the banking system, and Congress isn’t close to finding a solution. → Read More
Wednesday Q+A with Sen. Jeff Sessions
“This campaign is not over” says the Alabama icon and early Donald Trump endorser → Read More
The Next Steps in the Senate’s Fight Over Guns
All four gun and terror policy proposals stalled Monday, but Democrats made clear they would stay on the topic through November. → Read More
Why Rubio May Want to Stay in the Senate
Though he still hasn’t decided on reelection, his calculus has clearly changed → Read More